Archive for the ‘fatty liver’ Category

We got the first “Dietary Guidelines for Americans” in 1980. Look at the changes in rates of obesity starting in… 1980. I had an article published in Eric Cressey’s newsletter in August, called Why You Should Never Take Nutrition Advice from Your Government. In case you missed it, check it out. It generated quite a bit […]

While the effects of low-carb dieting on health can be impressive as well, especially for people with metabolic derangement (insulin/leptin resistance), I want to stick to low-carb for fat loss at the moment. Just to be clear, an evolutionary or paleo diet is not by nature always a low carb diet, though it can be. […]

Fatty Liver II. A couple weeks ago I wrote a little bit about how children as young as five years old are getting Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) and discussed how fructose appears to be a causative factor (not the only one). It’s kind of an important issue considering that as many as 100 million […]

A disturbing conversation While I was in the University Health Center for some routine blood work yesterday, I learned something interesting. The doctor I talked with happened to be a national speaker on diabetes, which lead us in to a conversation on the nutritional treatment of diabetes. She mentioned how having her patients stop drinking […]